Palaeography for Family and Local Historians : 2nd Revised Edition
Family and local historians frequently encounter the challenge posed by the writing, and sometimes the translation, of the records which might most enab...
Parish records are essential sources for family and local historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is an invaluable guide to them. He explores and explains the fascinating and var...
Tracing Your House History : A Guide for Family Historians
Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house – of their home – needs to read this compact, practical handbook. Whether you live in a manor ...
An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or only imperfectly understood. This dictionary is i...
This book is a guide to reading old documents. It takes the reader through the alphabet with examples of how letters might appear. Each letter is matched with relevant words and illustrations i...
Ecclesiastical Courts Officials and Records : Sex, Sin and Probate
An easy-to-understand explanation of the complex organisation and procedures of Church Courts and their officials. Ecclesiastical Courts granted probat...
Maps are an essential tool in the search for places connected with the lives of our ancestors, helping us to make sense of how and where they lived. Houses, farms, businesses, factor...
Latin For Local And Family Historians : A Beginner's Guide
Latin is the language of a vast quantity of source material but despite the popularity of researching family and local history there has been no recent textbook...
This compact handbook enables users to quickly and accurately read Latin epitaphs in churches, no matter what their knowledge of the language is. John Parker has reproduced...
Understanding Documents for Genealogy & Local History
Genealogists and local historians have probably seen every birth, marriage, death and census record available, and are adept at using the internet for research. Howe...
Wills Of Our Ancestors : A Guide for Family and Local Historians
What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? ...
A Handbook Of Dates For Students Of British History : New Edition
A Handbook of Dates is an unrivalled reference book for historians. It provides in clear, user-friendly form, tables which allow the calculation of the d...
This booklet is not intended to be a comprehensive dictionary of all the Latin words likely to be found in record of interest to family historian. It does, however, aim to include mo...
In this accessible collection of creative projects, Rachel Hazell shares exciting paper crafting techniques to develop your bookbinding skills. After explaining the tools and materials ne...
Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did...
Dorset Manorial Documents : A Guide for Local & Family Historians
Manorial documents are a useful and yet underused source for local and family historians in Dorset. They illustrate many aspects of the lives of ordinary...
The book is a detailed work that straddles a period from Ughtred's and her nuns' receipt of the land in question around 1152 to the 21st century. The modern part of the story begins in the late 19...
Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, h...